Outlining the achievements of the Aayog in its first year of operation, Panagariya said the Aayog is feverishly working on the first draft of the National Energy Policy.NEW DELHI: NITI Aayog, government’s premiere think tank, will soon come out with an electronics product policy that would focus on ways and incentives to manufacturers to produce in India, much in sync with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Make in India initiative. This would also help significantly reduce India’s electronic imports from China.

“We are poised to soon draft a Make in India Electronic Products Policy after wide consultations with think tanks and industry experts,” says Aayog’s vice chairman Arvind Panagariya in his blog.

Outlining the achievements of the Aayog in its first year of operation, Panagariya said the Aayog is feverishly working on the first draft of the National Energy Policy and has nearly completed the mid-term appraisal of the Twelfth Five Year Plan.

Admitting that the expectations from a high-profile institution, regardless of its age, are always high, Panagariya said “Our New Year’s resolution is to build on the work we have begun this past year while also launching new initiatives to make the dream of the Prime Minister a reality.” NITI Aayog was set up in January 2015 to replace the erstwhile Planning Commission.

The institution had inherited from the erstwhile Planning Commission about 1255 positions of which approximately 800 were actually occupied. However, in view of the mandates of the new institution to be a lean organization, over the last one year the institution has transferred a large number of staff members to other parts of the government with the number of positions in the institution trimmed to 500.

According to Panagariya, NITI Aayog is working with states to initiate reforms on the subjects under the state and concurrent lists of the Constitution. “An important initiative in this respect has been in the areas of land leasing,” he said, adding that a committee appointed by the Aayog under the chairmanship of economist Tajmul Haque will soon be finalizing a model land-leasing act that interested states may use to create a better framework for land leasing.

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